The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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